And we're delighted to announce that for this Challenge we have A PRIZE!!

Our very own Dan Jones,
author extraordinaire, globe-trotter, AI expert and general misfitmisanthrope mastermind
(I knew it began with "m")
is offering an ebook of his new novelMAN O' WAR
to the winner of the Challenge
(with the option of the paperback instead if the winner is from the UK)​

So get your thinking caps on and start those stories! We want to see a record number of entries chasing for Dan's book!

As usual, the thread is closed until the 10th, so you've got lots of time to write and polish and prink and polish some more.

Tim James

It's really kind of you to offer the prize Dan. I think one of the things that always stood out for the 300 word was the prize, so it is nice to see something back. Perhaps it is a trend that could be started with all you writers out there offering a book as a prize every now and then.

Umm. As for the picture I took one look and an idea popped straight into my head. I know it goes against the grain (and the rules) but the opening paragraph seemed so powerful that I just have to share it:

'In a hole in the ground there lived a Boggit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Boggit-hole, and that means comfort.'

Benevolent Galaxy Being

Firstly. Nice photo Chris Green
Secondly, @Dan Jones , you are a very cool guy for the offering a book prize.
Thirdly, @Perpetual Man , keep your fingers away from Boggit holes.
And fourthly, I can't remember the original idea I had for this photo (4 photo choice in December for the January 300). No worries, I got time.

One drink and he's anybody's

'In a hole in the ground there lived a Boggit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Boggit-hole, and that means comfort

nathanjessehoffman.com

It's really kind of you to offer the prize Dan. I think one of the things that always stood out for the 300 word was the prize, so it is nice to see something back. Perhaps it is a trend that could be started with all you writers out there offering a book as a prize every now and then.

Umm. As for the picture I took one look and an idea popped straight into my head. I know it goes against the grain (and the rules) but the opening paragraph seemed so powerful that I just have to share it:

'In a hole in the ground there lived a Boggit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Boggit-hole, and that means comfort.'

nathanjessehoffman.com

'In a hole in the ground there lived a Boggit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Boggit-hole, and that means comfort.'

A boggit is a fictional character, invented to confuse grockels. There a two breeds of boggit; land boggits and water boggits, the later are particularly rare and unique to The Lizard in Cornwall. They are half hare, half fox and have very sharp teeth. A boggit hunt takes place every year on the 9th September.

All very localised to this part of the world - 'grockels' mentioned in the above are tourists/people who aren't Cornish.